Business Resumption PlanningCOURSE OVERVIEW: Welcome to the Business Resumption Planning course. This program will equip you with the skills and knowledge to design, document, and maintain practical business resumption arrangements that minimise disruption, protect critical operations, and support structured recovery when hazardous events occur. Throughout this course, you will learn how to connect risk assessment, planning, governance, and continuity practices so that your

COURSE OVERVIEW:

Welcome to the Business Resumption Planning course. This program will equip you with the skills and knowledge to design, document, and maintain practical business resumption arrangements that minimise disruption, protect critical operations, and support structured recovery when hazardous events occur. Throughout this course, you will learn how to connect risk assessment, planning, governance, and continuity practices so that your organisation can respond quickly, resume key functions, and learn from each event.

This course begins by clarifying what is meant by business resumption planning and why it is a critical discipline for organisations of all sizes. This section explores the meaning and importance of BRP, the core elements of a business resumption plan, and what a good plan actually does in practice before, during, and after disruptive events. This section also examines why organisations must prepare for hazardous events, the possible impacts of those events on people, operations, assets, and reputation, and the benefits associated with an integrated risk management program that links business resumption planning with broader organisational risk controls.

The course then examines the planning process and governance structures required to turn business resumption concepts into a practical project. This section explains the overall planning process, the importance of visible management commitment, and the benefits of a BRP both before an emergency (through preparedness), during an emergency (through coordinated response), and after an emergency (through structured recovery and review). This section also outlines why and how to develop and communicate a business resumption planning policy, why appointing a BRP coordinator is essential, the importance of assembling a planning team with the right skills and representation, and how to establish a planning framework that uses a three-step process operational review, identifies organisational outputs, and clarifies department-level functions and their interdependencies.

Attention then turns to recovery structures, resource planning, and the allocation of clear roles and responsibilities within the business resumption framework. This section explains how to determine resource needs for resumption, how to develop a recovery structure that can operate under pressure, and how responsibilities are distributed across the executive control group, the information program coordinator, and the BRP and security coordinators. This section also details the roles of the resource coordination team and operations teams, the accommodation coordinator and the equipment and supplies coordinator, and the finance, administration, personnel, and essential records coordinators, as well as the damage assessment and salvage team, so that you understand how each component supports a coordinated and effective resumption effort.

The course then focuses on assembling, implementing, and maintaining the business resumption plan as a living document and program. This section explains how to assemble the BRP into a coherent, usable plan, what content should be included so that it is actionable in real events, and how to implement and maintain the BRP through training, communication, and periodic review. This section also explores what a comprehensive preparedness program can achieve, introduces risk assessment and risk models, and shows how to identify hazards, evaluate the level of risk each hazard represents, and link those assessments to preparedness activities that build resilience at organisational and departmental levels.

Finally, the course connects business resumption planning with broader business continuity practices, including lessons from recent disruptions such as COVID-19. This section clarifies what business continuity planning (BCP) is, outlines the six-step COVID-19 business continuity plan, and explains why identifying your key products or services and establishing clear objectives for your BCP are fundamental steps. This section also examines how to evaluate the potential impact of disruptions on your enterprise and workers, how to list specific actions to protect your business, why establishing up-to-date contact lists is critical, why maintaining, reviewing, and continuously updating your BCP is essential, and how a small business owner developed a BCP to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 in a practical, real-world context.

By the end of this course, you will be able to define business resumption planning and explain its relationship to risk management, business continuity, and organisational resilience. You will know how to secure management commitment, develop a BRP policy, assemble a planning team, and build a recovery structure with clearly defined roles, responsibilities, and resource requirements. You will also be able to conduct risk assessments, identify hazards, evaluate their impact, and translate those insights into preparedness activities, plan content, and testing regimes that keep your arrangements current. Most importantly, you will be equipped to design, implement, and sustain a business resumption planning program that helps your organisation prepare for, withstand, and recover from hazardous events in a controlled, timely, and effective manner.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

By the end of this course, you will be able to understand:

·       What is business resumption planning?

·       The importance of BRP

·       The elements of business resumption planning

·       What a good business resumption plan does?

·       Why prepare for hazardous events?

·       The possible impacts of any hazardous events on an organisation

·       The benefits associated with an integrated risk management program

·       The planning process

·       The importance of management commitment

·       The benefits of a BRP before, during and after an emergency

·       Why and how to develop and communicate a business resumption planning policy?

·       Why appoint a BRP coordinator?

·       The importance of assembling a planning team

·       How to establish a planning framework?

·       The three step process operational review

·       The organisational outputs

·       The department level functions

·       How to determine resource needs?

·       How to develop a recovery structure?

·       The responsibilities of the executive control group and the information program coordinator

·       The responsibilities of the BRP coordinator and the security coordinator

·       The responsibilities of the resource coordination team and the operations teams

·       The responsibilities of the accommodation coordinator and the equipment & supplies coordinator

·       The responsibilities of the finance and the administration coordinator

·       The responsibilities of the personnel coordinator and the essential records coordinator

·       The responsibilities of the damage assessment and salvage team

·       How to assemble the BRP?

·       The content of the business resumption plan

·       How to implement and maintain the BRP?

·       What a comprehensive preparedness program may achieve?

·       The risk assessment and the risk model

·       How to identify the hazards?

·       How to evaluate the risk that each hazard represents?

·       The preparedness activities

·       What is business continuity planning (BCP)?

·       The six-step COVID-19 business continuity plan

·       Why identify your key products or services?

·       How to establish the objective of your BCP?

·       How to evaluate the potential impact of disruptions to your enterprise and workers?

·       How to list actions to protect your business?

·       Why establish contact lists?

·       Why maintain, review and continuously update your BCP?

·       How a small business owner developed a BCP to mitigate the impact of COVID-19?

COURSE DURATION:

The typical duration of this course is approximately 2-3 hours to complete. Your enrolment is Valid for 12 Months. Start anytime and study at your own pace.

ASSESSMENT:

A simple 10-question true or false quiz with Unlimited Submission Attempts.

CERTIFICATION:

Upon course completion, you will receive a customised digital “Certificate of Completion”.